This. It's a shame that what passes for "AI" is doing useless shit like... opening the blinds, turning on the lights, showing you traffic and your calendar and turning on NPR. Or turning on a freakin' disco ball and firing up the "Glitter and Glowsticks" playlist.... good lord. instead of, say, monitoring crops for ripeness, searching for weeds (and even removing them) or correctly identifying crows and aiming microwave emitters at them if they get too close to the plants.
How about a written death threat towards person B by name, that is taped up on Mr Herricks front door?
Then he sues the manufacturer of the door, the company that made the paper and the green crayon used to write the threat, the company that made the tape, the makers of the varnish on the door which conspired to hold the note up, the builders who set the concrete floor he stood on while taping the note up and the Phoenicians for inventing the alphabet used to write the note.
Perhaps the snackbots could be programmed to dangle the snacks just out of their reach, and then take them on a run around campus until the sugar content of the snack has been worked off.
Or just for people who can afford to waste power by running a tiny radio station that spews EM in all directions, some of it reaching the devices they want to charge.
the world doesn't need more pranksters, particularly pranksters who think their mission is to wreck other people's lives. consider what the role of the trickster in society was, a thousand years ago, and then ask yourself if we need an entire society of pranksters constantly trying to shock everyone into thinking differently. the role is popular with teenaged boys because wrecking someone else's shit is empowering. it's why there are so many games about being an assassin.
nobody ever got rich with a video game about being a sewer pipe repairman, but nobody calls an assassin - or a prankster - when their toilet backs up. the first would kill you, and the second would make it worse and then laugh at you.
OK, if it's working as it should, what's the reason for removing the jack?
The designers have to be SEEN to be earning their pay. "Okay, this month's new model - what have you got for us, guys?".. "Well, we moved the camera port a bit to the left and added a speed stripe..."
If they can say they removed a part, even a part with a trivial cost, it sounds like they're doing something other than shuffling features around. If they force the user to buy a series of additional modules to keep the same functionality, even better. You see the same thing in government web design, where there's a perfectly useful and SIMPLE portal that's been tarted up like a Predator's HUD just because some jackanapes doesn't want management to think he's not doing anything.
The ASPCA says the *nationwide* average cost per dog is $1,000-$2,000 / year.
Average. If the dog needs to visit a vet, that can easily triple. On the one hand, vets take care of beloved pets; on the other, they take advantage of that emotional bond and they gouge you like crazy. I can't see any reason why pet surgery should be more expensive than human surgery.
Yeah, Microsoft used to pack lead foil into their hockey gloves. Best case, you get a concussion; worst case, you shuffle off this mortal coil.
Google raps the unprotected part of your arm above the glove with their stick, when they think the referee is looking away. You get a bruise, and continue to play with your head up.
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Do you want some toast?
How about a muffin?
"Pod Bay Door Opening is available only to Premium Customers. Do you want to upgrade to Premium? Get a free oxygen cylinder if you sign up now!"
This. It's a shame that what passes for "AI" is doing useless shit like... opening the blinds, turning on the lights, showing you traffic and your calendar and turning on NPR. Or turning on a freakin' disco ball and firing up the "Glitter and Glowsticks" playlist.... good lord. instead of, say, monitoring crops for ripeness, searching for weeds (and even removing them) or correctly identifying crows and aiming microwave emitters at them if they get too close to the plants.
In the worlds before Monkey, primal chaos reigned. Heaven sought order. But the phoenix can fly only when its feathers are grown.
A story to rival that of India's great epic. And, yes, there's no question it is a great epic. I've not finished reading, some parts are hard going.
Or... you could just watch the TV version.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_(TV_series)
"It is a far, far better thing that I do now.. than YOU ever did."
- Monkey (Great Sage Equal of Heaven)
How about a written death threat towards person B by name, that is taped up on Mr Herricks front door?
Then he sues the manufacturer of the door, the company that made the paper and the green crayon used to write the threat, the company that made the tape, the makers of the varnish on the door which conspired to hold the note up, the builders who set the concrete floor he stood on while taping the note up and the Phoenicians for inventing the alphabet used to write the note.
There! Did I leave anyone out?
Perhaps the snackbots could be programmed to dangle the snacks just out of their reach, and then take them on a run around campus until the sugar content of the snack has been worked off.
I've occasionally thought than an alien ship might look like a mandelbulb variation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbulb
Why would I buy a Cook-era MBP whose useless touch-bar will fail due to heat issues? How would I deal with all the dongles?
You pay for them, Wilde. You pay for them.
Firefox thrashes my hard drive until it is maxed out at 100% then promptly crashes.
Heh, yeah, I used to keep four years' worth of email in my inbox, too, and I never compacted my folders, either.
Or just for people who can afford to waste power by running a tiny radio station that spews EM in all directions, some of it reaching the devices they want to charge.
the world doesn't need more pranksters, particularly pranksters who think their mission is to wreck other people's lives. consider what the role of the trickster in society was, a thousand years ago, and then ask yourself if we need an entire society of pranksters constantly trying to shock everyone into thinking differently. the role is popular with teenaged boys because wrecking someone else's shit is empowering. it's why there are so many games about being an assassin.
nobody ever got rich with a video game about being a sewer pipe repairman, but nobody calls an assassin - or a prankster - when their toilet backs up. the first would kill you, and the second would make it worse and then laugh at you.
New Horizons will speed past Ultima Thule at about 14.6 m/s and pass within about 3,660 km of the surface.
Episode 6 of Karmapirates' "Dynamo" came out.
OK, if it's working as it should, what's the reason for removing the jack?
The designers have to be SEEN to be earning their pay. "Okay, this month's new model - what have you got for us, guys?".. "Well, we moved the camera port a bit to the left and added a speed stripe..."
If they can say they removed a part, even a part with a trivial cost, it sounds like they're doing something other than shuffling features around. If they force the user to buy a series of additional modules to keep the same functionality, even better. You see the same thing in government web design, where there's a perfectly useful and SIMPLE portal that's been tarted up like a Predator's HUD just because some jackanapes doesn't want management to think he's not doing anything.
Animals hunted and used everywhere around the world. Species are going extinct all around the world.
Humans aren't. We need some general-purpose Manshonyaggers to thin out their sickly breed.
"And yet, the Pixel 3s were still one of our favorite phones of the year, and ended up on our best gadgets list.>
"Our"? Who is he talking to? Where does he get off making claims for "us"? I don't even have a "best gadgets" list.
"The Red Stuff", by John Wyndham.
The ASPCA says the *nationwide* average cost per dog is $1,000-$2,000 / year.
Average . If the dog needs to visit a vet, that can easily triple. On the one hand, vets take care of beloved pets; on the other, they take advantage of that emotional bond and they gouge you like crazy. I can't see any reason why pet surgery should be more expensive than human surgery.
Steam kills Amoebas, because boiling water is too hot for them.
That said, by lowering the ambient air pressure, you can make water boil at a lower temperature. Amoebas can survive sustained temperatures of 46 C.
They didn't survive Jack Tramiel.
Oh, good - they didn't include th-
... but, why spoil that, eh?
Yeah, Microsoft used to pack lead foil into their hockey gloves. Best case, you get a concussion; worst case, you shuffle off this mortal coil.
Google raps the unprotected part of your arm above the glove with their stick, when they think the referee is looking away. You get a bruise, and continue to play with your head up.
OGELT'ORPE!
I'd have to check, but I think google said "Do no evil" as an imperative, not as a description of how they operate.
"I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to."
- J.R. "Bob" Dobbs
"Indeed." - Teal'c
Environmental protection, public transport, women... I'm sure this will be a quiet thread, nothing controversial there.
Did you miss the part about the reduction in Jaffa Cakes?
HARRRUMPH!
... with Unicorns is that they're both fantasy.
A unicorn company is really a donkey with a dead carrot tied to its forehead.
http://pbfcomics.com/comics/the-last-unicorns/